Texas Links

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`TEXAS`

It's not just a state, it's a State of Mind...

Greetings from the Lone Star State!

Plano, Texas

Dallas/Ft. Worth area

Texas Links

Texas for Visitors

Fun Texas Links

Texas for Kids

Texas Facts

Wildflowers

Texas Sweepstakes Links & Lottery

Links for our town

City of Plano, TX
Named an "All-America City" ~ 1994
Named the fourth "Most Kid-Friendly City" in the U.S. ~ 1997

Just where IS Plano, anyway?!

Plano Star Courier Newspaper

Plano Police Dept.
Hear their scanner on AudioNet... Hey, fun stuff! Only 4 departments in the country offer this...

Plano ISD

Plano Public Library System

Parks in Planohttp:?zip=75023
Does that Plano park have a playground, hiking trails, or shelters? Check before you go!

What's playing where - Plano Movie Theaters

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Dallas/Ft Worth & North Texas
Info about D/FW and what's going on in the area right now

Dallas Morning News Online

Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Newspaper

Hometown Dallas

4Dallas.com

Dallas - Mindspring

Dallas/Ft. Worth - Yahoo

Dallas Entertainment Guide

Guidelive:Current Arts & Entertainment events in D/FW

Ft. Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau

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Texas Links

(No need to list a bunch. The first two sites are enormous!)

Best All-Around Texas Links

YeeHa - Texas Resource Directory

Texas Information Links

**Official Site of the Texas State Government**

Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept.--GREAT info on Texas state parks

Austin, our Capital City (My other Texas "hometown")

Texas Maps

Texas Weather Jumpstation

Texas Highways - The official state travel magazine

Texas Media Outlets
(Newspapers, radio stations, etc. around the state)

Virtual Texan

Texas for Visitors

Texas Dept. of Transportation--Traveling around Texas

Texas Fun Travel Guide

Texas for Visitors @ About.com

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Fun Texas Links

Bat Sighting Schedule
(March through October in Austin, Texas )
What do you mean you don't know about the bats?!?

E-postcards of Texas to send to your online friends

Songs of Texas
Midi files and lyrics

Texas Mileage Guide
Shows the mileage between two Texas locations - too cool!

Scarborough Faire (Renaissance Festival)

What Makes you Thank Teksuns Tawk Funny?

Texas for Kids

Armadillo's WWW Server (Texas youth links)

Birds of Texas

Road Trip Across Texas

Texas SenateKids

Some Texas Facts

(No, actually our elected legislators really DON'T have anything better to do...)

State Bird -Mockingbird

State Flower - Bluebonnet
(Don't ever pick 'em, Texans get really annoyed about that!)

State Motto - "Friendship"
(unless we're talking about Oklahoma, of course!)

State Insect - Monarch butterfly

State Gemstone - Texas blue topaz

State Tree - Pecan

State Small Mammal - Armadillo

State Large Mammal - Longhorn

State Flying Mammal - Mexican free-tailed bat
(Hey, don't knock it - does YOUR state/country have 3 official mammals?!)

State Seashell - Lightning whelk

State Song - "Texas, Our Texas"
(pretty much says it all, doesn't it?)

State Dish - Chili

State Musical Instrument - Guitar

State Ship - Battleship Texas

State Fruit - Texas red grapefruit

State Folk Dance - The Square Dance
(I bet you thought it was "The Chicken Dance," didn't you?)

State Pepper - Jalapeño

State Native Pepper - Chiltepin

State Fish - Guadalupe Bass

State Sport - Rodeo
(followed closely by football, of course!)

State Vegetable - Texas Sweet Onion

State Fiber and Fabric - Cotton

State Dinosaur - Brachiosaur Sauropod, Pleurocoelus
(Yes, a state dinosaur... We really DO have it all here, don't we?!)

State Stone - Petrified palmwood

For more on Texas symbols, check out GeoBop's Texas symbols page

Even more Texana

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Don't y'all just love Texas wildflowers?!!
Come visit us in the spring to see them everywhere!

National Wildflower Research Center, Austin TX

Take the Dallas/Fort Worth Wildflower Photo Tour

'Wildflowers in Bloom' photo album
Created by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service

(this one's a Bluebonnet)

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